Johnny Depp to Play Cyber Security Icon-Accused Murderer John McAfee

Johnny Depp will star as cyber security icon and accused murderer John McAfee in a new film.

Deadline reports the movie, titled King Of The Jungle, will center around McAfee (Depp) taking a Wired magazine writer on a tour of his Belize compound. The story will take inspirations from Apocalypse Now and promises to be a darkly comic look at McAfee's wild lifestyle, which is filled with murder, sex, and paranoia.

Glenn Ficarra & John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love) will be directing from a script by The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who previously worked with Depp on Ed Wood. No word yet on a release date and who'll be co-starring with Depp as the Wired writer.

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Johnny Depp is also reprising his iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the upcoming latest entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales, which opens in theaters on May 26, 2017.

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